[CedarDave]

“We’re not against it,” Orlando Lucero, whose family has ranched on land in the Jemez Mountains near Valles Caldera since the 1800s, said of designating the mouse as endangered. “If it’s endangered, let’s protect it. But let’s do it right. There’s not only one way to do it.”

And while ranchers say their livelihoods may be threatened, they shouldn’t be the only ones concerned. Anyone who hunts, fishes, or enjoys camping at the nearby San Antonio Campground will be impacted, they say.

Knowing northern NM as I do, any fences put up by the Forest Service that serve to keep out humans won't last long. As the article says, the locals have been there for hundreds of years and won't take kindly to the feds and city environmentalists keeping them out.

[laplata]

Knowing northern NM as I do, any fences put up by the Forest Service that serve to keep out humans won’t last long. As the article says, the locals have been there for hundreds of years and won’t take kindly to the feds and city environmentalists keeping them out.

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Exactly. Almost every pickup coming down out of the hills had a deer under the wood as I remember.